Day 5-London Baby!

hello!

So the thing I couldn't tell you was I was coming to London as a surprise for my sister's birthday!  So yesterday I went out for her birthday.

I'm very tired, I had a lot to write earlier but now it's late, so instead you will get a very shortened version of my day...

I chilled out for most of the day with my sister and brother in law until about 4, when she left to stay at her friends.  Then I set off to Trafalgar Square, tried to get a ticket for war horse, failed, got a half price ticket for 39 steps, went to the national gallery, looked at lots of famous paintings, ate noodles, spoke to the boy, walked to Covent Garden, walked to the theatre, bumped into someone I met in Edinburgh, saw the show, came back to my sisters house, spent the evening talking to my brother-in-law and listening to Tim Minchin.

There!  sorry that wasn't as interesting it should have been, the 39 steps was good, but not amazing...

I apologise for this entry, but I am in need of sleep now, I have a train to catch in a few hours,

Loves

Industrial_Alice

Lyric of the Day: "feet so big I be steeping on leprechaun"- Black Eyed Pee's, Boom Boom Pow
Quote of the Day: "We Can't move, there's a flock of sheep in the road" "Oh, a flock of detectives"

a minor hiatus....

This blog is not dead!  I know ive been away for a while but that is because of a few things

1. disapearing to download, london, etc and generaly being away from my laptop.

followed by

2.  babysitting at my parents with the boy so not being online much

followed by

3.  i moved house 3 weeks ago and havnt had the net installed yet, which would have been resolved by tuesday, which would mean i'd be blogging again if the next thing hadnt just happened....

4. ive been offered a job, very last minuite, to go work the fringe festivle in Edinborough as a technicion, and as its super late i have to leave first thing tomorow!  *arrrrrrrr!!!!*  so i wont have the net again till i get back about the 4th or September.....



so you see!  i havn't abandond you!  my life is just a bit nuts at the moment...... i will try and make up for it back when my life is dull again! in the mean time, all i can do is try and take plenty of photos for along the way! 


see you at the fringe

industrial_Alice

And then the awesomeness turned to illness

So much has happened since I last wrote anything on here I actually haven’t had time to sit and take it all in until just now

I am currently sat on a train for the 3^rd time in so many weeks, on my way to my sisters ready for Paris.

My first trip to London after my last blog was of course to see the fabulous Lady Gaga,  the show was amazing, she had so many costume chages i struggled to count them and each one was as ridiculous and amazing as the last, her voice held up awsomly well live and the whole thing seemed more reminiscent of a stage show then a typical music performance.  There was a narrative, a ton of incredible scene changes and Lady gaga and her main dancers even took a bow at the end.  She came across really genuine and seemed to connect with the audience which is a difficult job to do in a sell out venue such as the O2 orena.  Semi Precious wepons walmed up  the croud for Gaga before hand and i can honestly say the lead singer was one of the campest people ive ever seen, wearing a glittery skirt, leggings, sequined high heels, lots of make up and little else he litteraly exsuded energy from the stage, the mixture of pure campness and rock music was an oddly good mix.

After a very quick trip home came my second trip back to London town, this time with the boy to attend the Bizzare ball, we decided to make a weekend of it and i have to say i had a fantastic time with the boy <3.  We went shopping, visited the comic museum and the british museum (I now have lots moer tank girl comics yey!), had lots of awesome food, did a ton of walking and spent a night in a theatre filled with people in fetish clothes mutilating themselves, getting makid, and abusing others, also known as the bizarre ball 2010! 

Strait back from that and i was literly thron into Download Festivle 2010.  That whole week was pure madess once more with some of the bext friends i could as for!  Lots of mudd, and sunshine, the first few days consisted of some deadlry drinking games, overly priced food and general loudness.  Friday the Friday, Saterday and Sunday were band days and what a great show most bands put on.  Killswich Engage were a personal highlight for me, I used to be such a huge metal fan but I feel at the moment that my love of industrial has pushed me away from most of that scene, so it’s great to ahve a band like this one throw you strait back in it again as if you’ve never left.  They are one of the few bands who I have been great without fail everytime i’ve seen them play, they genuinely have fun and always maage to get the crowed going, oh and there guitarist is a madman who “wants to headbutt all your girlfriends vaginas” you have to commend his honesty!  ACDC put on a show which was literally unreal for a festivle, they had there own stage which had an entire train built into it, they used every trick in the book and it worked so well.  Im not going to claim I was ever one of ACDC’s biggest fan’s before but it has deffinalty changed my view of them towards the better, the amount of energy they gace at the age was amazing, and some of there lesser known songs I engoyed much more the expected, there a band toyou ca’t halp but have so much respect for.  Bullit for my valantine I almost feel I have grown up with, about the time I started going to gigs heavily is about the time they started touring with well known bands, for a few years it seemed that literally any band I went to see, they supported them, so it feels wierd that i now hunt them out to watch them, i guess this is a good sign of there growth.  Brought out as the british Trivium they seem to have carried on were Trevium failed (mainly in not trying to become metalica!), the newer songs seemed great and the older ones made me feel like a 16yerar old “dirty mosher/bagghead/ whatever chavs shouted at me in the street” again which can only be a good thing.  Plus it appears Matt tuck has aged far worce then I have, so i can’t complain ;)

My biggest regret of this festivle was Sunday, the reain came and after trying to avoiding it by hiding in the 3^rd tent, one of the few that was covered, listening to some terrible scremo band who must have wondered how they had sudernly become so popular, idecided that my determination to see the hilarious mock metal band Steel Panther was eough to brave rain for, and so I went, managed to get a good place to see them, but ended up so soaked i literally had no way of dreying out, by which time my one pair of shows were filled with mud and my jacket was totaly sodern with water, i had to call it a day and come bak early, missing stone sour and aerosmith, something which is a huge shame.

As a result of the said rain I am now suffereing from the worst cold I have had in ages,  i forgot my passport yesterday ad had to go ck to Lincoln ad collect it, and have now realised the train i have booked back to licoln from London i need to get to make iot back to work the following day i wont be able to make because I wont get back from Paris intime to catch, and its the last trai of the day, it seems my good times are chaging, but i ca only hope ot, now for the rest of this jurney i am goig to watch sword in the stone, happy days J

That’s all folks

Industrial_Alice.

P.S sorry for my lack of visuals i this blog, all my pictures are eather tied up in my camera phone, which i cant find the lead for, on my shitty disposable cameras which i havn’t had developed yet, or belong to my boy, so I will ahve to see if he will let me use them first J  hopefiully I will have a photo blog soon!

My poor neglected blog... awesomeness is on it's way!

Well maybe not blog wise, but these next couple of weeks should be fun fuilled for me at least!

First things first, multimedia assesments are finished! Which means little to whoever is reading this but it basicaly means I am no longer working 14-16 hour days with very little breaks. Infact, i have booked 18 days off work starting in 2 day's, 11 of which will be payed, and I finaly got the pay rise I have been wanting for a while, although that probibily won't come into reality for a while yet...

Photo of all the technicion's that worked the multimedia assesments

Which means no more assesment work till at least October, which is a shame really, I do enjoy them, but don't tell the student's that ;)

So tomorow the fun starts! Tonight I have to finish the show (Bomber's Moon, it's really good!), do the get out, then go home and have a masive packing sesion so i have everything ready for all the upcoming events, which is going to totaly suck cause i HATE packing! Then tomorow, i get up, set some stuff up at work, leave the guy's to it and get on a train because....

I am going to see Lady gaga!

This was a bit last minuite, my sister had two tickets to see her at the O2 arena and someone dropped out so she offered the other ticket to me, i can't wait, i bet she will be amazing live, I have been to the 02 arena twice before, once to go to the fanclub member's only Metallica show with my friend Samantha, and last time was with my older sister to go to the Michael Jackson tribute, if there's one thing you will learn about me from reading this blog it's that my music taste makes no sence

The next day I am getting a stupidly early train to my home town because it's my boyfriend's birthday, and we wil just be chiling out. I don't really know if my boy would want me to put a picture of him on the net so instead....

Happy birthday baby!

Last week was my mum's birthday but as I was working and didn't get to see her so the next day will mostly consist of me hanging out with my mummy <3

Me and Mum at the P!nk gig last year

On friday I am off to London again, this time me and the boy are stopping at my sister's for the weekend for the Bizarre ball

A friend of a friend won tickets and couldn't go so now me and the boy are attending in their place, the theme is carnival, but as it was last minuite i couldn't think of anything to go as, so I figured to hell with it and instead I am going as my blog's name sake, I am going as an industrial Alice :). This is what i have bought to wear so far (i just pray to got it all comes before I set off for London next week!)

These shoes wern't the cheapest but I don't mind because I know I will wear them alot

A latex Alice mask, a bit random but i kind of love it!

My Alice style corset, think this look's Alicey enough?

This is the one thing i'm most unsure of, latex blue skirt, i purposly got it to my hip size and not my waist size as I am worryed about the fit, I don't have the smallest bottom half, so i'm just hoping this works out ok!

And these are the cyberlox I am getting, the guy who is making them is going to stick some yellow in there too to make them a little more Alice like at no extra cost along with a clip in white fringe.

That is pritty much all of it, along with some Alice socks i already have and other bit's and bobs, oh and these awsome Cheshire Cat cyber goggles I already have which i love!

I just hope it all comes together and people can actualy tell who i'm ment to be. Then when i'm back from that it's strait to Download festival! This will be my 5th year in a row of going and I love it, although these day's i think it has more to do with meeting up with old freinds then Download itself

Then the day after I am back from that I go back to London once more to stay at my sister's before going with her and her Texan friend to Paris for a day as both me and him have never been before, I am not sure what this will consist of yet, then back to Lincoln to work the Art's Festival, then back to my home town once more to look after my little sister for a week as my parents are away

and so concludes my next month!

Love ya's all!

Industrial_Alice